Low Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Mill.
Low Mill
- WRENN ID
- silver-panel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Low Mill, Caldbeck, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 326 398
- Coordinates
- 54.74946, -3.04838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Mill is a former water-corn mill that was last used as a saw mill in the early 1960s. It is dated and inscribed over the rear entrance with "J WYBERGH B of LAWS & RECTR OF THIS CHURCH BUILT THIS MILL AD 1702 ED AD." The building is constructed of mixed sandstone and limestone in irregular courses and features a graduated greenslate roof, with part of it covered in corrugated iron.
The mill is two storeys tall and has a U-shape, with the front facing downstream. It has a boarded entrance and small casement windows under wooden lintels. The left portion of the building has a higher gabled roof made of corrugated iron, with 20th-century sliding plank doors and casement windows. The right side features an external mill wheel.
At the rear center, there is a plank door set in an alternate block surround, with one stone inscribed "T.J. YOUNGHUSBAND JUNIOR." There is a right-angled extension to the left that includes a window with a chamfered surround on the upper floor, which is boarded over. This extension continues as a single storey with a corrugated iron roof. The right projection has an overhanging roof that forms a loading bay. Inside, some of the original machinery remains.
Local climate
Low Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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